Andy Warhol and the Amiga

So while reading this (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43168246) somewhat completely unrelated article on a stolen Degas painting found during a random search of a bus, I found this comment at the very end and had never heard of such a thing:

"In 2014, a number of unknown Andy Warhol works were discovered on 30-year-old Amiga disks. The artist was paid to create the works for the launch of the Amiga 1000, a Commodore brand computer."

A linked article is rather interesting and a bit appropriate for VCC (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27141201).

4 Likes

Shameless plug for the engraving / printmaking classes given by @Hardsuit and Astrud …

Just a note: that Degas painting that was stolen and found was a monotype. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/24/french-customs-stumbled-upon-a-stolen-1-million-painting-in-an-unlikely-place/).

https://calendar.dallasmakerspace.org/?category=79

1 Like

lol…

“Did you get the suitcase with the Degas?”

“No, I thought YOU had the suitcase with the Degas!!”

“Oy vey izmir!!!”

3 Likes

That is a great hack. And it shows a big danger of digital archival.

1 Like

Given that Steve Jobs introduced Warhol to the Apple just before it made sense that Warhol kept up with this new medium. Even Moby use to be big into the Amiga Demoscene world.

If it wasn’t for early artists like these and others, then the multimedia “revolution” would not have much of an impact and things like YouTube, Newgrounds, or more than half the internet as we know it now would not have existed.

One has to wonder about the possibilities of how much art is still out there hidden on some floppy drive locked away in someone’s closet and what if the would never came to know about it or even what the world would been like if we never had these kinds of influential makers partaking in world of computers.

1 Like